Awful Quote by Elliott Erwitt

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

— Ai Weiwei

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in…

— Pablo Picasso

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

— Violet Trefusis

I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for me and…

— Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss

I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in…

— Ai Weiwei

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster…

— Suzanne Keene

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -…

— Thomas P. Campbell

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

— Theaster Gates

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They…

— Hans Haacke

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over,…

— Jerry Saltz